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Article: LSE: A History of the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1895-1995.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 27, 1995
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LSE: A HISTORY OF THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, 1895-1995. By Ralf Dahrendorf. Oxford University Press; 604 pages; $39.95 and Pounds 25
RALF DAHRENDORF is well qualified to write a critical analysis of the LSE, an institution that specialises in writing the critical analysis of others. A sociologist of renown, an outsider (albeit of Anglophile enthusiasms) and, not least, a former director of the LSE, Lord Dahrendorf has crafted a rich, many-sided history of the place. It was set up in the autumn of 1895, a few months after Sidney and Beatrice Webb and their Fabian associates, among them Bernard Shaw, decided to establish an institution ...
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